Do you find you ‘regress’ a bit when you’re home. I only have my Mum left now and she’s quite elderly so I have to behave like an adult now but, when my 22 year old comes home, despite living in a flat in another country, she suddenly becomes 12 again and lounges around in p.js and fluffy slippers and wants her favourite food and her ‘own’ corner of the sofa.

Hopefully your excellent example will stop him going too far. My two are chalk and cheese. My eldest has real itchy feet and ‘doesn’t like the UK’. Youngest loves to come home, but all the film industry work is London based – a least while she’s trying to make her mark. Although she does love London too. Hopefully in the future we’ll close the geographical gap with her, but I really do think eldest will settle down NZ and that breaks my heart 😦